the aim of this study was to design a program to educate emotion management and to evaluate its effectiveness on controlling anger and mental health in soccer players. the method of this study was quasi-experimental, pretest-posttest with control group. the population consisted of all players of soccer teams in adult premier league in 2014. 40 players of soccer teams in premier league were sele...

In this report, we predict the results of soccer matches in the English Premier League (EPL) using artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms. From historical data we created a feature set that includes gameday data and current team performance (form). Using our feature data we created five different classifiers: Linear from stochastic gradient descent, Naive Bayes, Hidden Markov M...

In recent past online social media has played a pivotal role in sharing of information and opinions on real time events. Events in physical space are reflected in digital world through online social networks. Event based studies for such content have been widely done on Twitter in the computer science community. In this report, we performed a detailed analysis of a sports event called the India...

the aim of this study was to evaluate those factors influencing tax evasion in professional coaches and athletes. to collect the study literature, review of related literature and interview with professional professors; then, those factors affecting tax invasion were extracted and a questionnaire was designed with 32 items. the statistical population consisted of 1. professional professors of p...

This paper examines the 2008 player auction used in the Indian Premier League (IPL). An argument is made that the auction was less than satisfactory and that future auctions be replaced by a draft where player salaries are determined by draft order. The salaries correspond to quantiles of a three-parameter lognormal distribution whose parameters are set according to team payroll constraints. Th...

In this paper, we show a new technique to analyze families of rankings. In particular, we focus on sports rankings and, more precisely, on soccer leagues. We consider that two teams compete when they change their relative positions in consecutive rankings. This allows to define a graph by linking teams that compete. We show how to use some structural properties of this competitivity graph to me...